The insular, inbred country life on her Greek island home oppresses Amalia, who imagines herself possessed by gods, but her encounter with a Scandanavian tourist leads to a conflict that is expressed through five incantatory voices. A first novel....
A poignant and evocative novel of one Greek woman’s story of her own -- and her nation’s -- epic struggle in the aftermath of World War II. Aliki is one of the last of her kind, a lamenter who mourns and celebrates the passing of life. She is...